Crazy, Our World
9th edition of “Gjon Mili” competition in Kosovo reveals its winner
Fisnik Dobreci, the photo-reporter of the Albanian-language daily “Express” in Kosovo, is the winner of the 5th edition of the “Gjon Mili” photographic competition held at Prishtin묠the capital of the new-born state, reports Standard (5.09.2009).
The theme of the 9th edition of the international photographic competition is “Crazy, Our World” and the curator of the exhibition that is being shown with works participating in the competition is Samir Karahoda. The exhibition was inaugurated on the 3rd of September 2009, at the very heart of the visual arts’ world of the country, in the reputed Gallery of Arts of Kosovo (Galeria e Arteve e Kosov쳬 GAK). The works of the 30 participants are actually showing on Hall N. 1.
Nearly 30 photographers, from different parts of the world have participated in the competition which is crowned by an award of a thousand Euros.
The competition and the exhibition of participating works take their name after Gjon Mili, a celebrated American photographer of Albanian origin.
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And the winner is Š?
Fisnik Dobreci !
Photo-reporter at the Albanian-language daily “Express”, in Kosovo.
Also contributing photographer to Kosovo Images – Photo Agency.
Born in 1985, in Prishtin묠Kosovo.
Cameras used for some of his most renowned works: Pentax film camera. Canon digital camera.
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Gjon Mili
The first personal exhibition of the Albanian-American photographer Gjon Mili was held as early as 1934. His last exhibition with a selection of the 140 best photos of his long career as a photographer was held in 1980 in New York at his 75th birth anniversary. Gjon Mili was born in 1904 in the south-eastern city of Kor諬 Albania, informs Standard (5.09.2009). The celebrated photographer died on the 15th of February 1984.
Besides his life-long devotion to photography, Gjon Mili has also developed cinematographic projects and has shot 6 documentary films whose plot he was the author, reminds Standard.
Movement and character depiction are at the heart of Mili’s photographic work. In the domain of photography, Mili’s name is inscribed in the selection of the best photographers of the XXth century. More than 20 years after his death he is remembered as one of the 100 most captivating photographers of the century we left behind.
Photographs of figures in movement, especially dancers, as well as portraits of world celebrities, among which Hitchcock, Stravinski, Ionesco, Matisse, Braque, Rubinstein, el Greco, Sinatra, Truman, Molotov and Lord Halifax, to mention just a few, are engraved in the memory of mankind. But his most renowned photography is that of Picasso drawing in the air with a live charcoal, emerging masterfully from the Picasso series shot in 1949.
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The Gallery of Arts of Kosovo was founded in 1979 and claims to have organized over 600 national and international exhibitions since its foundation, being thus not only an important art center in Kosovo, but also an important art center in the Balkan area.
